Searching for happiness (Attack on titan X Fairy Tail Crossover)

Chapter VIII - The devil himself

It was like being trapped in a nightmare.

I stood frozen in front of the memorial plaque for my only two comrades and couldn't take my eyes off the dark letters when a voice tore me out of this trance.

"Levi! There you are!", she exclaimed and for a moment I really could not say if I was in the present or the past. I recognized Isabel's voice, she called to me as she so often did. She was always so happy and lively when she saw me and although I found that a little annoying most of the time, it warmed my cold heart in a certain way. She would come right next to me and nudge me. But what did Isabel do here? She was dead.

As if in slow motion, I turned my head to the voice, expecting to see the only too beloved redhead. But when I looked to the side, I only spotted a blue-haired girl and this brutally tore me back to the ground of the facts. What was she doing here now? Could she not even leave me alone here? Especially at this place she had to run into my path?

"We are waiting for you! Nobody really knew where you are.", she babbled loudly and came running up to me with a faint smile. It was probably unfair and cowardly of me, but I just hated her because of her frightening resemblance to Isabel. I knew this girl could not help it, but her presence alone almost seemed to drive me insane. Every time I looked at her, it felt like someone was punching me in the face with. Knowing that a loved one was gone forever, and then looking into that person's almost exact likeness was simply unbearable and left me with endless agony. Closely, I turned my gaze back to the angel statue and snorted. Did not she realize that this was an extremely inappropriate moment to bother me?

"What are you doing for so long, we ...", she called on, but stopped abruptly, but just squeaked in fright. Amazed, my gaze flickered to her and I saw her stumble over the slightly outlined border of one of the beds of roses with one of her feet.

It was probably a reflex or the old habit that I had grown over the years of living with the clumsy Isabel, in any case, I reacted immediately and covered the distance between Wendy and me in a matter of seconds. Just in time, I stopped in front of her to catch her.

Somewhat dazed, she now clung to my arms and looked up at me with wide, astonished eyes and I held my breath in horror. What exactly had I done there? Why did I catch her? But the answer was obvious, my memories and my body knew this movement. It had always been the same with Isabel, and instinctively I had acted the same way from reflex.

"Um ... thank you.", the girl in front of me now said a little shyly and as if she had an infectious disease, I pushed her away from me and took a step back.

"If you stumble every time you run, it's a miracle that you're still alive.", I growled coldly and dismissively and immediately she looked a little sadder. I just hated being the way I was, but I just could not handle this situation. I could not handle the fact that she was so like Isabel and the pain was almost unbearable.

"What are you doing here?", she asked cautiously but I ignored her question. What did she care what I did here? She would not be able to understand it anyway, I thought grudgingly, giving her a quick stare. At the same time I saw her looking at the angel statue and then slowly reading the words on the stone tablet. Her eyes widened briefly as she realized it was a memorial and she was about to open her mouth to say anything, but I was walking past her quickly.

"Come on, brat. I thought you said that the others are waiting.", I growled, leaving her behind me. Briefly, it was quiet behind me, then I heard her follow me with quick steps and shortly thereafter, we arrived at the front of the estate, where the others were waiting for us.

"There you are finally!", Erza said and gave me reproachful glances, but I just ignored her. She would not scare me like she did with Natsu or Gray.